1983–1991: Early years AOL began in 1983, as a short-lived venture called Control Video Corporation (or CVC), founded by William von Meister. Its sole product was an online service called GameLine for the Atari 2600 video game console, after von Meister's idea of buying …
1991–2006: Internet age, Time Warner merger In February 1991, AOL for DOS was launched using a GeoWorks interface followed a year later by AOL for Windows. This coincided with growth in pay-based online services, like Prodigy, CompuServe, and GEnie. 1991 also saw the introduction of a…
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Content As of September 1, 2021, the following media brands became subsidiary of AOL's parent Yahoo, Inc.. 1. Engadget 2. Autoblog 3. TechCrunch 4. Built by Girls AOL's content contributors consists of over 20,000 bloggers, including politicians, celebrities, academics, and policy experts, who co…
MediaWiki, the software that Wikipedia runs on, identifies users either by a Wikipedia account username, or by your computer's allocated IP address. Unregistered users, who have no real username are identified by their IP addressalone. When you access Wikipedia from AOL, a proxy server (with its own IP address) retrieves and sends data to Wikipedia's servers on your behalf r…
AOL. AOL Inc. (previously America Online) is a U.S. -based online service provider and Internet service provider. It has been in business since 1985. Important services in the early years were online chat and online game s. Most connections were dial-up. In 2001 AOL bought Time Warner.
AOL. AOL là viết tắt của America Online, là một công ty cung cấp dịch vụ Internet toàn cầu có trụ sở tại Hoa Kỳ. công ty này thuộc quản lý của tập đoàn Time Warner (hiện là Warner Media).
International Das Unternehmen wurde 1985 in Dulles, Virginia von Jim Kimsey als Quantum Computer Services aus den Überresten der 1983 gegründeten Control Video Corporation (CVC) gegründet, die einen Onlinedienst für den Atari 2600 anbot. Das erste Produkt Quantum Link (Q-Link) war ein grafisch…
AOL Deutschland Die deutsche Niederlassung wurde 1995 als Joint Venture der Bertelsmann AG und AOL Europe gegründet und hat ihren Hauptsitz in Hamburg, wo Geschäftsleitung und Redaktion angesiedelt sind. Die überwiegende Mehrzahl der rund 1.200 Mitarbeiter arbeiteten in den Call-Centern in Sa…
AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by Verizon Media. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.
AOL, ehemals America Online, ist ein US-amerikanischer Medienkonzern mit Sitz in New York City. Im Jahr 2000 war AOL mit 30 Millionen zahlenden Mitgliedern der größte Internetdienstanbieter weltweit. In Deutschland hieß der Claim des Unternehmens damals „AOL – Alles OnLine“.
Ende 2005 stieg Google Inc. für eine Milliarde Dollar (833 Millionen Euro) bei AOL ein. Am 3. April 2006 benannte sich America Online Inc. offiziell in AOL LLC. um. Die ursprüngliche Mission, die der Name ausdrücken sollte, Amerika online zu bringen, habe man schließlich längst erfüllt, begründete AOL-Chef Jon Miller.
^ "America Online Changes Its Name to AOL". April 3, 2006. Archived from the original on July 15, 2006. Retrieved July 24, 2006. ^ AOL Launches Free Software To Improve PC Security For All Internet Users.